# Building Building requires cmake, make, an "arm-none-eabi" toolchain (including newlib), and picotool (including the .cmake files; eg. /usr/lib/cmake/picotool/*.cmake). At the time of this writing, on Parabola GNU/Linux-libre that means: - make 4.4.1-2 - cmake 3.30.3-1 - arm-none-eabi-binutils 2.42-1 - arm-none-eabi-gcc 14.1.0-1 - arm-none-eabi-newlib 4.4.0.20231231-1 - picotool 2.0.0-2 ```bash mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. make ``` # Debugging UART: - pin1: gpio0: TX (so connect it to your FTDI's RX) - pin2: gpio1: RX (so connect it to your FTDI's TX) - pin3: gnd (so connect it to your FTDI's GND) - picocom --baud=115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 # Usage The harness uses DHCP to acquire an IPv4 address, then serves the 9P protocol over TCP: - TCP port: 564 (9P does not have a standard TCP port number, but this is the default port number used by most 9P-over-TCP clients, including the Linux kernel's v9fs driver). - Supported protocol versions: - `9P2000` (base protocol): Yes - `9P2000.u` (Unix extension): Yes, with Linux kernel architecture-"generic" errnos. This will match the Linux kernel errnos on most architectures (but, as of Linux v6.7, not on Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC, or SPARC; I am unsure whether on these platforms the kernel's v9fs filesystem driver will map the "generic" errnos to the architecture-specific errnos for you). - `9P2000.L` (Linux extension): No, it's an abomination and unlikely to ever be supported - `9P2000.e` (Erlang extension): No, but if you want it and ask nicely I'd be happy to add it (I'm not sure why you'd want it though). - Authentication: None There are lots of 9P clients that you can use. 9P is a filesystem protocol; and you can mount it directly with the the Linux kernel's v9fs filesystem driver, with plan9port's `9pfuse`; or interact with it without mounting it using the shell commands `9p` (from plan9port), `wmiir`, `ixpc`; or interact with it without mounting it by using a library for your programming language of choice. Some notes on choosing a client: - On x86-32, the Linux kernel v9fs driver is known to drop entries from directory listings; I advise using 9pfuse instead of you want to mount it on 32-bit systems. - I generally like mounting it as a real filesystem, but this means that you only get errno errors, and the more-helpful error strings are discarded. - The sbc-harness only supports 8 concurrent connections to the 9P server, so while shell commands are handy for poking around, for real use where you're doing things in parallel you'll likely want to mount it or use a library that can reuse existing connections. # Bugs/Limitations - Only supports 8 concurrent TCP connectsions to the 9P server (due to limitations in the W5500 TCP-offload chip; TODO: investigate using a software TCP/IP stack with the W5500 in MAC-raw mode) - Only supports 16 concurrent 9P requests (I wanted a static limit, and "connections*2" seemed reasonable) - Only supports IPv4, not IPv6 (due to limitations in the W5500 TCP-offload chip; TODO: investigate upgrading to the W6100 or using a software TCP/IP stack with the W5500 in MAC-raw mode)